COLORLINES: TIM WISE: KING’S LEGACY TOOK A BEATING IN 2010

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Tim Wise: We Twisted King’s Dream, So We Live With His Nightmare

Anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise revives the radical politics that the right has airbrushed out of King’s dream.

Remembering MLK: The Things We’ve Forgotten Would Guide Us

Civil rights movement scholar Barbara Ransby says we are all King’s political heirs.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call for Peace as Racial Justice Still Rings

Global Justice columnist Michelle Chen explores the legacy of King’s antiwar activism.

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Where is the Relief Money for Haiti?
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Man With Golden Voice Ted Williams Heads To Rehab, How It All Unfolded
An interactive look at how Ted Williams went from from hero to villain in less than two weeks.

ELLE Cover Lightens The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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